Cattle-car



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

J. A. BRYAN & J. EB. FIELDING.

CATTLE GAR.

No. 328,915. Patented Oct. 27, 1885.

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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2. J. A. BRYAN 8; J. B. FIELDING.

CATTLE UAR.

Patented Oct. 27, 1885..

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JOSEPH ALBERT BRYAN AND JAMES BENNETTE FIELDING, OF PRESCOTT, ARKANSAS.

CATTLE-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 328,915, dated October 27,1885.

Application filed June 15, 1885.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, J OSEPH A. BRYAN and JAMES B. FIELDING, citizens of the United States of America, residing at Prescott, in the county of Nevada and State of Arkansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oattle'Cars, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Our invention has relation to cattle-cars; and it consists of a new and improved method of feeding and watering stock while in transit.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the stock-car with our invention attached. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional View of the same cut through Fig. 4 at the line 00 as. Fig. 4 is an end elevation of the car. Fig. 3 is aperspective View of one of the troughs. Fig. 5 is a crosssection view of one of the troughs. Fig. 6 is alongitudinal sectional view of the top or tank. Fig. 7 is an end view of the tank or top.-

Our invention is described as follows:

The entire top of the car is made so as to form a water-tank, 1, and is so constructed as to be removed at pleasure, and has an opening, 2, at the top to admit the water, and one or more openings, 3, on the side, to which a hose may be attached to convey water to any part of the car. It also hasahorizontal flange on its front end, which fits under the front cross-beam of the car, and perpendicular flanges on the sides and rear end,which fit between the top, side, and rear beams of the car and hold the tank in place.

Our troughs 4. are made in five pieces, and hinged together and secured by clasps 5, as shown in Fig. 3. The bottom a has its edges ct abeveled. The sides I) have their lower edges, b b, also beveled, so that when the two beveled edges come together the sides stand perpendicular to the bottom. The sides 11 are hinged to the bottom a by hinges c, which are secured on the outer face of the bottom and sides, and allow the same to open out flat. The ends (2 are hinged on their inner face to the inner face of one of the sides I) by a hinge, d, which allows the end to be folded in close to the said side. A clasp, 5, is hinged to the upper edge of one of the sides, and bent at its loose end to clasp the other side of the Serial No. 168,708. (No model.)

trough when the same is closed. This trough may be opened and let down in proper position to form part of the side rails of the car. These troughs may be attached to the outside of the car, as shown in Fig. 1, in which case they are held close to the car by means of the guards 6, and are drawn up to the top of the car by means of the cords 7, winding-shaft 8, and cords 9 and 10, ratchet-wheel, dog, and spring 11. The cords 7 are attached to the troughs 4 and the winding-shaft 8. When we wish to raise the troughs,we pull on cord9. This turns the winding-shaft 8 and draws the troughs up. When we wish to let the troughs down,we pull on cord 10, which releases the ratchetwheel from the dog, and the troughs wind down by their own weight. Two or three of the side slats are cut away to allow the cattle to put their heads outside and feed from the troughs, as will be seen from Fig. 1. These troughs 4 may also be arranged on the inside of the car, as may be seen by the arrangement in Fig. 2, in which case they are held in position by means of guides 12, to which the top leaf of the trough is held by means of an eye secured in the back part of the same. These troughs,when secured on the inside of the car, are raised or lowered by means of cord 13, winding-shaft 14, beveled gearing 15, ratohet-wheel, foot-dog, and hand-wheel 16, the operation of which needs no description 5 but we do not in this application claim the mechanism for attaching these troughs to the inside of the car, nor the mechanism for winding the same up and down, as we have claimed the same in another application filed covering this inven tion.

Having described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a cattle-car for watering and feeding stock, the combined top and water-tank 1, having the openings 2 and 3, the horizontal flange fitting under the top front cross-beam, and the perpendicular side and end flanges fitting on the inside of the top side and end beams of the car, all substantially as shown and described.

2. In a cattle-car for watering and feeding stock, the trough 4, consisting of the bottom a, having the beveled edges a to, sides I), having the beveled edges 2), and hinged to the said bottom bymeans of the hinges 0,ends d, hinged shaft 8, winding-shaft 8, cord 9, working on on their inner face to the inner face of one of the drum rigidly secured'to the shaft 8, cord the said sides by hinges d, and clasps 5,hinged 10, attached to the dog, and ratchet-wheel 11, I 5 to the upper edge of one of the sides, substanall substantially as shown and described, and

5 tially as shown'and described. for the purposes set forth.

3. In combination with a cattle-car for wa- In testimony whereof we afiix our signatures tering and feeding stock, the combination of in presence of two witnesses. troughs 4,working up and down on the outside JOSEPH ALBERT BRYAN. of said car, guards 6, secured to the outside of JAMES BENNETTE FIELDIN G. 10 said car and holding the said troughs in place, Witnesses:

cords 7, the lower ends attached to the said JOHN MARTIN,

troughs and the upper ends to the winding- ANDREW J. LAVENDER. 

